Tag Archives: Solar Power

A Leadsom never changes her spots

Posted on March 4, 2016 by ianchisnall

The reports from the meeting  of the Energy and Climate Change Committee in the House of Commons on Wednesday that Andrea Leadsom lost her temper when questioned by MPs suggests that the real views of this Minister of State at the … Continue reading →

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We need a diagram too

Posted on November 4, 2015 by ianchisnall

This diagram, based on American data tells a very important story. The deep green bars are the full life cycle cost of electricity generation. It shows that gas (first column) and coal costs will remain constant but that wind and solar … Continue reading →

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Can you feel the need?

Posted on September 22, 2015 by ianchisnall

This is Amber Rudd, MP for Hastings & Rye and also the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Yesterday she was on the radio defending the decision by George Osborne (her ex-boss at the Treasury) to guarantee loans to … Continue reading →

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The graph says it all

Posted on November 20, 2014 by ianchisnall

Somewhere in the years between 2017 and 2023 it will become cheaper to produce electricity through solar photovoltaic cells than through the burning of gas. The purple line of the graph shows the projected cost of using gas to produce electricity between now and … Continue reading →

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We need storage solutions

Posted on June 19, 2014 by ianchisnall

The news that Ed Davey has given consent for a new wind farm of the Suffolk Coast means that from 2019 our nation gets a bit closer to the target of being free from fossil fuel powered electricity. It is disappointing … Continue reading →

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The Sun could lose its hat

Posted on May 11, 2014 by ianchisnall

The proposals a few weeks ago by the Conservative Party to change the planning regime for on-shore wind turbines, making their installation less likely was an appalling blow to those people who had trusted David Cameron when he claimed “vote blue, get green”. … Continue reading →

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